Molecular evidence from retroposons that whales form a clade within even-toed ungulates

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6643, 1997, Pages 666-670

  Shlmamura, Mitsuru ^a   Yasue, Hlroshl ^b   Ohshima, Kazuhiko ^a   Abe, Hideaki ^a   Katot, Hidehiro ^c   Kishiroi, Toshiya ^c   Goto, Mutsuo ^d   Munechika, Isao ^e   Okada, Norihiro ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FAR SEAS FISHERIES   (Japan)

^d Institute of Cetacean Research   (Japan)

^e Chiba Zoological Park   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; UNGULATE; WHALE;

ANIMALS; ARTIODACTYLA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; WHALES;

ARTIODACTYLA; CAMELIDAE; CETACEA; CORYPHAENIDAE; HIPPOPOTAMIDAE; PHOCOENIDAE; UNGULATA;

EID: 0030794201     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/41759     Document Type: Article

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